Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix.

  • Schlickeysen, Gustav.
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[1877]
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Credit: Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Simplicity and Beauty of the Fruit and Bread Diet.—We thus have fruit and bread as articles of food which do not excite or depress, which do not weary or effeminate, and whose influence is wholly pure and nor- mal. No repast can be more simple, natu- ral and agreeable, none more healthful and beneficial after vigorous labor out of doors. A few cherries, plums, berries, grapes and apples and a little bread suffice to replace the used-up tissue. How pure and artistic, how in the highest degree humanizing, is such a meal. It brings us into harmony with nature and satisfies every want. Lightness of spirit, gentleness of disposition and an impulse to labor are the result; indeed this is the only food immediately after the eating of which we may apply ourselves to work or study without injury. Take, for example, a man who lives in the free air and in daily com- munion with Nature, who enjoys the bless- ings of willing labor, who eats of the juicy fruits of the garden, and drinks from the pure fountain, whose eye is clear and whose cheek is crimsoned by the blessed sunlight, and compare him with one who lives